1953 - the shirt, not the year.

I am starting to feel I have drawn and posted so many people checking their i-phones that there is absolutely nothing more to say on the matter.

Except I got to get me one of those.

242 - smart

Like how this smart, neat, seriously together business woman...

...produced a smart, neat little sketch.

How much does the outward appearance of the subject affect the way you draw them, the marks you make, the way your hand moves ? That sounds head slappingly obvious, but do you know what I mean? Does your assumed 'mood' of a person spill over into yourself as you draw them ? Is sketching someone the closest to an empathic connection you can ever have with strangers ?

3 lots of Kippers

Never sleep on a train in front of me. You might as well have a label DRAW ME.

And I'm going to, you can bet on that,

i-pod under

Loved the sight of this woman, lost to the world, wrapped in her own moment, literally, head to toe in black, except for the little glint of her bright red i-pod.

Wait, wait...

There. That's what she looked like. The most amazing silhouette.

Proms.

Went to the Proms last night. In front of me was a young boy with his Dad. They both wore plaid shirts. He jammed his thumbs in his ears when the music got too loud for him, and I thought he wouldn't last the night. But I was wrong, he was still clapping as enthusiastically at the end as everyone else, and even stood for the ovation.

One of the pieces was Holst's 'Mars', and it got me to thinking. I have never owned a recording of it, or heard it performed live before, yet I knew every bit of it. Can you imagine creating something that goes out and becomes so ubiquitous that it becomes part of everyone like that. You instinctively know it. How it goes, what it means. To give the world just one amazing thing.

That would be a goal worth having, wouldn't it.

Damn it !

Sat opposite bloke reading paper.

Got his head down v. nicely thank you. All going well, liking the unusual angle.

Then mess up the body something royal ( with a small r this time )

Oh well. Still putting him here.

235

Why does J come after G in the alphabet ?